Originally Posted by
tacfoley
Sir, you are aware, I assume, that almost 3000 [three thousand] subjects of the United Kingdom also have a CCW permit? They - police and prison officers present and retired, members of the judiciary and NIA, certain local counsellors and former members of the UDR - all carry a firearm in order to preserve their lives, and as such, would not be dangerous except to their would-be killers. I, too, carried on a daily basis in NI when out of uniform. I was determined to be VERY dangerous to any threat that came MY way.
tac
I didn't realise that it was anything like that number, but then can't honestly say that I'd given it any consideration in the first place. I remember that one of the policemen held in a London embassy siege in the 70s was armed at the time and presumably the Royal Protection Squad but would not have expected there to be as many as 3000 at any one time.
ATB, Mick
When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns .